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She heard a church clock on the island striking, and asked Don Gomez the hour. 'Ten, he said. 'Ten! Surely it must be later. It was past eight before we began dinner, and we have been sailing for ever so long. Captain, kindly tell me the time, she called to the skipper, who was lolling over the gunwale near the foremast smoking a meditative pipe. 'Twelve o'clock, my lady.
She was happy, very happy in the thought of her kind new friends; but there were tears for the one she felt she had said farewell to, even though he was only a cuckoo in a clock. "Father," little Dermot would say, "tell me something more about the castle in the lough." Dermot M'Swyne was a little lad, with blue soft eyes and bright fair hair.
And then the two girls sat down to compose themselves for a few minutes, while Capitola gave new and particular directions for Clara's course and conduct, so as to insure as far as human foresight could do it, the safe termination of her perilous adventure. By the time they had ended their talk the hall clock struck twelve. "There! it is full time you should be off!
Captain De Stancy did not remain thus long. Rising he went softly downstairs. The grey morning had by this time crept into the hotel, rendering a light no longer necessary. The old clock on the landing was within a few minutes of four, and the birds were hopping up and down their cages, and whetting their bills. He tapped at the sitting-room, and she came instantly.
It was the warning alarm for the gangsters: they had fled. Suddenly to Shirley's straining ears came the tick-ticking of an alarm clock, from the corner of the room to his right. He dare not look at it. Warren's eyes grew black with the Great Fear! "You fool, you've locked all the entrances, and sent the men away. That clock will ring in exactly five minutes.
I don't see how you could want to marry a lady who didn't know right off, the very first minute, that she wanted to marry you. Do do I know her, Uncle Winthrop?" "You do." For a moment there was silence, broken only by the ticking of the clock on the mantel; and slowly Dorothea turned to her uncle, her big brown eyes troubled and uncertain.
And then, certainly, the room did seem very empty, and very still; and the clock, which she never heard the rest of the week, kept ticking an ungracious reminder that she was alone. Ellen would sometimes forget it, in the intense interest of some nice little piece of repair which must be exquisitely done in a wrist-band or a glove; and then perhaps Margery would softly open the door and come in.
She could then hear the noisy ticking of the small, cheap clock in the kitchen. At the same moment another door creaked, and Chirac, with hair all tousled, but fully dressed, appeared in the corridor. "So you have decided to sell yourself to him!" Chirac whispered. She drew away instinctively, and she could feel herself blushing. She was at a loss.
The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock. At length it broke upon his listening ear. 'Ding, dong! 'A quarter past, said Scrooge, counting. 'Ding, dong! 'Half past, said Scrooge. 'Ding, dong! 'A quarter to it. said Scrooge. 'Ding, dong! 'The hour itself, said Scrooge triumphantly, 'and nothing else!
I recall considering in my mind the idea of bequeathing my tame squirrel to Hendrick Getman, and the works of an old clock, with their delightful mystery of wooden cogs and turned wheels, which was my chief treasure, to my negro friend Tulp and then reflecting that they too would share my fate, and would thus be precluded from enjoying my legacies.
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